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The Lively Place
Mount Auburn, America's First Garden Cemetery, and Its Revolutionary and Literary Residents
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The story of one of the Boston area’s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and “residents” have influenced American culture
When Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful...
Mining Childhood
Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Mining Childhood offers a child’s-eye view of Butte, Montana, from 1900 to 1960. These years mark the rise and decline of Butte’s fame as the “Richest Hill on Earth,” when the veins of copper coursing deep beneath the city’s surface created thousands of jobs for miners and untold wealth...
People Before the Park
The Kootenai and Blackfeet Before Glacier National Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Step out of a world governed by clocks and calendars and into the world of the Kootenai and Blackfeet peoples, whose traditional territories included the area that is now Glacier National Park. In this book, the Kootenai and Blackfeet tribes share their traditions—stories and legends, foodways and...
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
When a Serial Killer is active in a community it is extremely scary for everyone. This book focuses on Serial Killers who have been captured and some of the most notorious and ruthless killers in history.
Serial killers stay close to home and their victims are random. Dennis Rader found all...
Pride and Pain in Difficult Times
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This extraordinary collection of poems by global human rights activist, author and jurist, Basil Fernando bears witness to one of the most harrowing clashes in South Asian history. Bringing an utterly human voice to Sri Lanka’s decades-long civil war, Fernando evokes the imagery and testimony of...
by Chuck Spinner
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The Tragedy at the Loomis Street Crossing After five years of intense research, Author Chuck Spinner has written the definitive story of the Naperville Train Wreck of April 25, 1946. He has uncovered the histories of the 45 victims of the tragedy, interviewed two surviving eye witnesses of the event,...
Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio;
From Footpaths to Expressways and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Join the author in reliving Sylvania's over 180 years of history from footpaths to expressways and beyond, in volume three of an eight volume set. With 30 years of research she has included every subject imaginable that helped bring Sylvania to where they are today, with excellent schools, over-the-top...
by Chuck D'Imperio
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
The hundreds of rural cemeteries in Upstate New York are the bucolic final resting places of a plethora of legendary Americans from the recent and distant past. For over a decade, Chuck DImperio traveled to research the beautiful and historic region in search of some of the most famous (and infamous)...
by Eric W. Sanderson, Ph.D., Paul E. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
More than 400 years of history unfold in the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents sixty-five full-color maps of America's oldest major city. This is Manhattan's first atlas of historical maps, gathered from private collections and libraries throughout the world. From Giovanni...
by Brian Solomon, John Gruber
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of...
The New York World's Fair, 1939/1940
in 155 Photographs by Richard Wurts and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
The New York World's Fair 1939/1940 may not have been the greatest of all world's fairs, but it is probably the most fondly remembered of all of them, a spectacle that no one who was there has forgotten. The 700-foot-tall Trylon and the 200-foot-wide Perisphere are still vivid symbols and memories...
by A. Monroe Aurand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Early Life Of The Pennsylvania Germans by A. Monroe Aurand
THE HISTORY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS is a most interesting subject. It began more than three hundred years ago, and the end is not in sight. One of many things to be remembered about the people called Pennsylvania Germans (or Dutch),...
by James Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Many people in Brazoria County, Texas, are unaware that a lumbering industry exists or has ever existed in the county. Books and other publications have written about the countys other industries and enterprises such as chemicals, sulfur, oil, rice, cattle, and shrimping.
A History of Logging...
Nameless Towns
Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation's third-largest...